I had previously passed along an announcement from Roger Ward of a Trade-O-Ree to be held during this Summer’s BSA National Jamboree.     Richard Shields has also asked me to share information about another Trade-O-Ree   that will be held near the Fort A.P. Hill.

2010 NATIONAL JAMBOREE TRADE-O-REE

Sponsored by The Society of Scout Memorabilia Dealers

Fri. July 23rd – Sun. Aug 1st

Fri. 7/23 3pm to 1am; Sat. 7/24 noon to 1am;

Mon-Thur 7/25-7/29 Noon to 11pm

Fri. 7/30–Sat. 7/31 noon to 1am; Sun Aug. 1st noon to 5pm

Buses Welcome                                                                       Plenty of Free Parking

Buy, Sale and Trade

All kinds of Boy Scout Memorabilia

Eagles Lodge

21 Cool Springs Rd. Fredericksburg, VA

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Roger Ward recently sent me information for a trade-o-ree (TOR) to be held near this Summer’s BSA National Jamboree.   I gladly pass this along here.

2010 Jamboree 100th Ann BSA Patch Show At
The Ramada Inn Fredericksburg South,VA

Siesta Beach Trading Company presents the

2010 Jamboree 100th Ann BSA Patch Show

Friday July 23rd to Tuesday August 3rd, 2010
12 Day Show From Friday To Tuesday

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Nachamawat 275 J4?

Many lodges and councils are issuing patches this year for the BSA’s centennial. I even recently started to build a page on this site for these issues.     However this isn’t the only significant Scouting centennial that will occur within the next few years.     Gap Danish recently sent me an image of a new jacket patch from Nachamawat 275 (Penn’s Woods Council, PA) that I believe may be the first OA lodge or chapter issue for the Order of the Arrow’s centennial in 2015!

The patch’s design pays tribute to the history of the OA in this lodge’s area.   It includes the totems of Nachamawat’s predecessor lodges — Hopocan 275, Wopsononock 347, and Amadahi 441 — as well as the current lodge totem and that of Unami 1.     It also includes three different National OA logos rendered as smoke.

It will probably be some time until OA centennial issues start appearing in earnest.     When they do, a page will be added to this site for them.

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Tschipey Achtu (397) S1?

I recently announced on this blog the formation of Tschipey Achtu lodge.   At that time I had no news about patches.   Mike Conkey recently acquired the newly issued first flap from this lodge and thanks to him for providing this image.

Notice that the new flap bears no lodge number.   In that earlier blog entry I reported that the lodge’s web page on the council’s website refers to this as Tschipey Achtu Lodge #397, even though lodge numbers are no longer assigned on a national basis.   There has been some discussion about this.

At this time I have no further details about the patch.     This lodge’s issues will be shown on the Tschipey Achtu lodge page of this site.

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The National Order of the Arrow is selling several items of merchandise in their online trading post for the BSA centennial.     These items include a flap (conveniently sold either singly,   or in   three, 10 or 20 patch bundles), neckerchief, neckerchief slide, cap and hat pin.

The single flap is sold enclosed in a special portfolio and includes a message from the 2010 National Chief and Vice Chief.     It is clearly states this flap is not to be worn on the uniform.

Upon trying to place an order, a shopper is advised that, “Any orders containing BSA 100 Anniversary products will not be shipped until June 15th, 2010.”

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Check out this recent post on Roy More’s blog:

http://thescoutpatchauction.com/blogsite/2010/03/23/this-is-wrong

I am not a supporter of Big Labor and learn very much to the political and fiscal right however I agree with Roy that there is something inherently wrong with this.

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Nisha Kittan 114 S1?

Previously I had reported of the formation of Nisha Kittan lodge, in Lewis and Clark Council, from the merger of Kishkakon 32 and Taleka 81.     Thanks to Rich Dillow, I now have an image of the lodge’s newly issued first flap.   The lodge has decided to use 114 as a lodge number.   As far as I know there are no other issues from this lodge at this time.

The design of the flap a simple portrayal of the lodge’s black wolf totem, depicted baying at a full moon.     It’s nicely done.   However some observant collectors, especially those in the Southern Plains may find this patch rather familiar looking.   I have to wonder if the designer of this flap was inspired by another patch.

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107 Unilachtego ZS1?

There is an old adage about what happens if one assumes.     Randy   Holden recently gave me an example of why one shouldn’t assume.

A few years ago this privately made patch bearing the name and number of “Unilachtego 107″.     Given the history of lodge 107 and what was already published in Blue Book, and a proclivity for the recycling of some old lodge names, I assumed this was a predecessor lodge to Kon-Kon-Tu 107 that never had an authentic issue.     That was where I was wrong.

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The Unknown Lodges (Originally printed in Blue Book –  reprinted with permission of the American Scouting Historical Society)

by Jeff Morley and Bill Topkis

It is hard to imagine the Order of the Arrow of the early 1920’s. The scouting program itself was less than 15 years old and the Boy Scouts of America was only one of several scouting organizations competing for national dominance. In those days, the program was not even called Order of the Arrow. What we now know as the OA began in 1915 as Wimactendienk W. W. and was one of several honor camper societies to form during the first decade of Scouting.

Based upon the few first-hand accounts by members who were active in the 1920’s, minutes of early meetings of the Grand Lodge and the official “History of the Order of the Arrow” by Kenneth Davis, an amazing picture of the order’s early years begins to emerge.

Scout councils began procuring their own camps in the early to mid 1920’s. Before then, it was commonplace for councils to share large camp areas. Three such areas were Treasure Island on the Deleware River near Philadelphia, Lake Kawonanke, and Crystal Lake in New York. Scout encampments from many councils co-existed along the shores of the latter two locations and in the case of Kawonanke Lake, we know that well over thirty different scout councils had campgrounds there at the same time. In circumstances such as these, it is easy to see that if one council utilized a popular honor camper society, it would not be long before the idea would spread to neighboring council camps and such was the case in the early days.

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Rick Obermeyer taught a training session on “Ethical Patch Distribution” at NOAC earlier this month. The topic of patch restrictions often arises in conversation both at NOAC and elsewhere. It is raised often enough that he included an answer to this question in his handouts. I share this here with his permission.

Q4: How do you feel about restrictions?

A4: That really isn’t in the context of this session, but since we have time, I’ll give you my personal opinions, if you like. I can’t speak on restrictions for everybody. That would be too presumptuous. I can only talk about what works for my own lodge back home. Shall I go ahead?

How my lodge feels about restrictions is based on some premises. The first premise is that we are all brothers in the Order of the Arrow. That is, equal brothers. We all got into the OA the same way, with election by others. If we have Brotherhood membership, that’s because we all individually made a personal promise to accept the challenge to cheerful service that was shown to us during the Ordeal. If we are Vigil, that is a sign given to indicate that others feel that we have done a decent job of keeping that personal promise we made to ourselves at Brotherhood.

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